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The Constellation
Connecting Local Responses around the World
Annual Report 2015
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Eunice Musubika, Rituu B. Nanda, Thrse Nyemba, Pascale Paul, Blaise Sedoh, Jan Somers, Clicia Theys and Ricardo Walters
Texts: Pamela Aglae, Emmanuelle Bricq, Marlou de Rouw, Khalil Ibrahima Diakite, Gerard Ee, Philip Forth, Herv Guidou, Autry Haynes, Jim, Laurie Khorchi, Joseph Koivogui,
Jean-Louis Lamboray, Paul Lokoto, Taha Maatoug, Eunice Musubika, Onesmus Mutuku, Rituu B. Nanda, Thrse Nyemba, Pascale Paul, Birgitta Schomaker, Blaise Sedoh,
Marie-Christine Swennen, Celicia Theys, Eric Uwintwaza, Joao Arnaldo Vembane and Bobby Zachariah
Translation: Marie Lamboray
Review: Marlou de Rouw, Philip Forth, Susan Koshy, Rituu B. Nanda
Preparation: Marie Lamboray
Table of Content
Acronyms and Abbreviations ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 1
1. Vision and Mission of the Constellation..................................................................................................................................................................................... 2
2. Theme of the Report: In our differences we grow; in our sameness we connect. ........................................................................................................ 3
Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 4
Humanising a Problem is about Improving the Quality of our Lives by Improving the Quality of our Relationships. ............................................................. 5
Live Together, Create a Community............................................................................................................................................................................................... 7
How? With a Positive, Inclusive and Joyful Approach ................................................................................................................................................................... 8
Theory of Change (Ownership) for the Constellation .................................................................................................................................................................... 10
Awareness at Two Levels: I Have a Challenge and I Am not Alone! .............................................................................................................................................. 13
Reminding that We Are All Part of a Better Whole with the Are we Human? Question ............................................................................................................. 14
Reminding What Is at Stake with the What is your dream? Question ........................................................................................................................................ 15
Serious, Engaged and Challenging Discussions to Move from Dreams towards Action with the Self Assessment and the Action Plan ...................................... 16
When We Act following our Dream, We Do It with Pleasure and Pride. ....................................................................................................................................... 19
Learning by Finding out What Works Well, and What We Would Like to Amplify ........................................................................................................................ 20
We Love to Learn and Share. It Gives Us Energy and Joy .............................................................................................................................................................. 21
3. Support Teams Activities .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 23

Global Support Team (GST) ............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 25
Mauritius What Being Human Really Means .............................................................................................................................................................................. 26
France Facilitation of the SALT Approach with the Amitoyens Group ........................................................................................................................................ 28
Democratic Republic of Congo Community Management of Child Survival in 35 Health Zones (Katanga and Kasai 1&2) ....................................................... 29
Indonesia SALT for Spice and Other Development Programmes in Maluku ............................................................................................................................... 30
Uganda Support for Improving Health & Well-Being of Older Persons ...................................................................................................................................... 31
France Communities Competent to Take Care of their Health, the SALT Approach in Reunion ................................................................................................ 32
Netherlands Introducing the SALT Approach to Students of the Hogeschool van Amsterdam.................................................................................................. 33
Botswana Communities Acting Together to Control HIV (CATCH).............................................................................................................................................. 34
France Communities Competent to Take Care of their Health, the SALT Approach in Mayotte................................................................................................ 35
Madagascar Harmonization of the Community Development Practices .................................................................................................................................... 36
4. The SALT approach in other organisations ................................................................................................................................................................................ 25

Belgium Declaring a State of Emergence, BelCompetence ......................................................................................................................................................... 38
Burundi Restoring the Ability of Young People to Dream and Act, Racines de lEspoir (Roots of Hope) ................................................................................... 39
Democratic Republic of Congo Taking up Challenges with Available Strengths, RDCCompetence ............................................................................................ 40
France New Star of the Constellation, France Competence ....................................................................................................................................................... 41
Guinee Synergy of Action against the Ebola virus, Guinee Competence .................................................................................................................................... 42
India Supporting People in Distress or Confronted with Suicide, ConnectingNGO ................................................................................................................. 43
Netherlands A Deeper Level of Humanity, Getting to Know SALT and CLCP, Dutch Competence ............................................................................................. 44
Singapore Nurturing a Space for Partnerships to Emerge, Beyond Social Services .................................................................................................................... 45
Togo The SALT Approach for Children's Health, Togolese Red-Cross and UNICEF ..................................................................................................................... 46
Tunisia Transferring the SALT Approach in Health Activities, Sihatouna (Our Health) ............................................................................................................... 47
Acronyms and Abbreviations
AIDS Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

CLC Community Life Competence
CLCP Community Life Competence Process
DRC Democratic Republic of Congo
GST Global Support Team
HIV Human Immunodeficiency Virus
NGO Non-Governmental Organisation
AER After Experience Reflection
RDCC or RDCCompetence Rpublique Dmocratique du Congo Comptence,
national support team of DRC
SALT Stimulate, Support, Appreciate, Listen, Learn, Link, Transfer, Team
UNAIDS Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
UNICEF United Nations Children's Fund
1. Vision and Mission

of The Constellation
This is The Constellation.
The Constellation is made up of communities that aim for life
competence through the practice of SALT (Stimulate, Support,
Appreciate, Listen, Learn, Link, Transfer, Team).
and this is our dream for The Constellation in 2050.
We will live in a world where communities take action, based
on their strengths to realise their dream. They inspire others
when they connect to learn and to share and for mutual
support.
and this is the role of Constellation Support Teams.
Constellation Support Teams develop and nurture the
capacity to facilitate community discussion, reflection,
learning and action. We accompany communities on their
journey to their dream. We connect local responses around
the world.
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2. Theme of the Report: In our differences

we grow; in our sameness we connect.
Wisdom does not just sit between the ears;

it emerges when connecting with others.
Photo: Herv Guidou
An idea of Jan Somers, UN-United Noses for a better world:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/Nose.to.Nose/
Introduction
The story by Herv is a very beautiful example of the idea that in our common
humanity we connect and in our difference we grow. No, Herv cannot be JeanLouis, but he can be Herv:
himself. And out of this comes, not a clone of Jean-Louis, but another different,
but consistent view of the Constellation.
And here is one final thought to end. My guess is that when Jean-Louis and Herv
meet again they will talk about this. They will exchange thoughts and they will
explore new insights and possibilities. And out of that conversation will come
something new both for Jean-Louis and for Herv.
"During the final day of training with Laurie Khorchi and Pamela Agla in Mayotte,
we had to present the Constellation to our interns. What were we to do? JeanLouis Lamboray does this so well with all his stories, the origin of the
Constellation, its beginnings. But we could not be Jean-Louis, unless we learned
the story by heart. (And even if we did learn the story by heart, would that be
enough to make our story credible and legitimate?). We just couldnt do it that
way!
The principle of the Peer Assist is another nice example. The Peer Assist works
well when there is a core which is shared and a diverse set of experiences. You
need the common base on which to start the conversation and then you need the
diversity to go beyond seeing the world in exactly the same way.
We decided to present ourselves, our motives and what had brought about this
meeting with the Constellation. To talk about what this had awakened in us and
what we had done. I think our listeners were touched by our story; that they felt
that it is truly human.
I think that another subtlety is that we do not grow because of differences, but
the conversation around differences creates a third possibility beyond the
differences... so that both grow...
And with an affectionate nod to Jean-Louis, this is my learning: If I do not try to be

Jean-Louis Lamboray, then I can be myself and I can become a good facilitator."
You can also see it in the Learning Festival when there is a sharing of stories
around a common theme.
Philip Forth
This is a short story, but it says a lot of things to me about how the Constellation
works and what makes the Constellation special. First of all, there is the
connection between Herv and Jean-Louis. There is something that is shared
between Herv and Jean-Louis. And nearly all of us at some time or other have
had this shared connection with Jean-Louis. And this is recognised in the
affectionate nod that Herv sends in Jean-Louis direction. Through what we
share, we connect.
But Herv also recognises that he cannot be Jean-Louis. He does not have that
history of stories. He does not have that long background of appreciating human
being for what they are. None of us does. But Herv recognises that he does not
have to be Jean-Louis. He does not have to remember the stories. He can be
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In our differences we grow; in our sameness

we connect.
In our differences we grow; in our sameness we connect is not just a theme but
an essential call to action for a peaceful world where people lead meaningful and
joyful lives.
Gerard Ee, Beyond Social Services, Singapore
Humanising a problem is about improving

the quality of our lives by improving the
quality of our relationships.
There is one condition to our journey: we must recognise that we are all human,
moved by similar hopes and concerns. In our interactions with others, we leave
behind our references to a world made of experts and uneducated people, clerics
and lay persons, rich and poor, donors and recipients. We then become free to
share our experience and to appreciate others.
The Constellation Charter, Preamble
Many services medicalise problems; make a diagnosis and

offer a treatment. We have chosen to humanise problems
and regard them as opportunities to rally people to build a
social integrated society. A socially integrated society is not
about getting people to change but getting people to be more
accepting of each other and working toward a common good.
Humanising a problem is about improving the quality of our lives by improving
the quality of our relationships.
Gerard Ee, Restorative Neighbourhood Project Beyond Social Services, Singapore, July
2015, http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/creating-a-restorative-clmate-part5?xg_source=activity. More on this organisation p.45
To recognize that we are all human, we must get rid of our

masks: diplomas, expertise, position in society This is an
essential condition to have a natural conversation, without
protocol. With no preconceived idea of what we have to offer,
ready to receive what the other has to give, we let the
conversation evolve freely. And it is precisely when we
experience our common humanity that we can celebrate our differences: we are
equal, but fortunately we are not identical! Therefore, each of us has something
to give, and everyone has something to receive. It greatly facilitates the dialogue
when nothing tangible is brought to the table; neither material goods nor money.
So, past the surprise of our guests, we can unleash the development of the
intangible: the relationships that will allow the journey to life competence.
Jean-Louis Lamboray, BelCompetence, Belgium, What makes us human? p.70
If we introduce ourselves as human, accessible and vulnerable,

we will give our partners the opportunity to do the same, and
thus strengthen our human to human relationships.
Celicia Theys, BelCompetence, Belgium, December 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/a-madagascaramicalement-v-tre-le-transfert. More on this partnership p. 36
There is always a similarity (we are humans) so we should

always be able to start a conversation.
If the similarity is too much then the conversation is dull. But if
there is some similarity and some difference then the
conversation can blossom. It starts with the similarity but then
builds on the difference.
Philip Forth, United Kingdom
Volunteers young and old are united in our differences in age,

sex, political, religious and others. We decided that despite
fears of a security and economic climate deteriorating day by
day, we should act upon our vulnerabilities in solidarity.
Read the story of Eric Uwintwaza, Racines de lEspoir, Burundi,
Restoring the ability of young people to dream and to act, p. 39.
Appreciation
Pascale Paul shares how overcoming prejudices allowed her to
appreciate the privilege of connecting with a group.
Here my greatest lesson was that once I decided to leave my
preconceptions aside and get to know the real person, I
discovered someone with amazing strengths and a beautiful
person. However the first step in doing this was the
acknowledgement that I had such preconceptions to begin with.
Pascale Paul, Le Pont du Tamarinier, 'equal opportunity for people' Mauritian NGO
operating in the Black River district, September 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/personal-reflection-about-an-outing-withthe-men
The first three sessions of 90 minutes were dedicated to SALT, the change of
outlook and the role of the facilitator. The facilitators in training have discovered
the hard work of "deconstruction of prejudices and pre-established ideas on each
other and on us" necessary "to appreciate and to stop judging and expecting from
others to change", but also the effect of appreciation of strengths: Telling
someone [his or her strengths] makes me proud. It allows the person to feel good
about him or herself and also to show other hidden strengths writes Zainaba in
the Blended Learning modules Forum.
As part of a partnership between the
IREPS Mayotte (Regional Authority for
Education and Health Promotion) and
the Constellation, facilitators trained in
the SALT way of working in Mayotte in
order to develop and implement a
Community
Health
Mobilization
Regional Programme. More on this
partnership p. 35
Laurie
Khorchi,
BelCompetence,
Belgium,
August
2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profil
es/blogs/sur-le-chemin-de-lappropriation-du-salt-mayotte-parution-du
Being there and sharing stories (to connect) and living

the story (get involved) with an appreciative open mind
and courage (to facilitate change/learn and grow).
Our struggle to go out where people are, not to be satisfied
with the services we provide inside, is opening our
consciousness to the reality out there. Here in lies our
discomfort and our struggle of learning how to be with people
in their sufferings... and in responding to this discomfort with
humility and braveness has come our opportunities for learning
and growth.
Read the Story of Bobby Zachariah, India,
Supporting People in Distress or Confronted with Suicide, p. 43
"Working in older people's care home was

initially a job, but now I am emotionally
connected and want to work from my heart"
said Champions Care Home teammate. The
home was set up this year by E. M. Rafique,
Constellation facilitator in India.
Rituu B. Nanda, India, November 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/what
-if-we-connected-as-human-beings
The more we practise appreciation and discovery of

others, the more we will approach our common
humanity, and thereby improve the chance to meet and
to be able to move forward together."
Mutuelles en pays de Vilaine, France
Live together, create a community

Belonging to a group is an essential part of creating change
InsightShare and UNICEF in Learning for Peace
What is a community?
In the broad meaning of the word, a community is nothing more than a group
that shares 'something'.
At its weakest, the group may share nothing more than a physical location
(perhaps, a commuter town outside a large city).
At its strongest, the individuals in the group may devote their lives to a shared
idea and to each other (for example, a religious community).
And between these two extremes there is an infinite range of possibilities for
sharing.
(In England, where I live, people would stop saying, "Somebody should do
something about that dreadful bus service!' and would start to say, "We are going
to do something about that bus service!")
The consequence of a shared objective is naturally shared action. And shared
action is Local Response.
The role of the Constellation is to stimulate communities to move along the path
from shared interest to shared objective to shared action. And the Community
Life Competence process is the tool that communities use to do that. Since we
work only by invitation, this means that there is at least one member of the
community that sees the benefit of moving along this path.
Philip Forth
Once there is stimulation and people generally get into a
momentum, there will be need for nurturing so that a natural
way of thinking and working can be sustained and impacting
where communities take responsibility and ownership to
pursue common dreams.
Autry Haynes, Guyana, More on the Mauritian experience p. 26
If we accept this idea, we can suggest that communities evolve as the extent to
which they share broadens and deepens.
The first stage in this evolution is the recognition of a shared interest.
This shared interest could be based around location, but it does not have to be.
So the dormitory town could perhaps recognise that it needs a better bus service
to the large town where lots of people work.
But the community could be based around an enthusiasm for singing and the
people who make up that community could be made up of people from a range of
'physical' communities.
The next step in the progression of the community is the recognition of a shared
objective.
So when a group goes beyond complaining that the bus service to the nearest
town is dreadful and they decide that they are going to do something about it,
they have a shared objective.
Communities Acting Together to Control HIV (CATCH) in Botswana

Photo: Ricardo Walters
How? With a positive, inclusive and joyful

approach
When we work with humans, there are relapses, but we do not
feel sorry because of these relapses, we look at what the
person has done, progress made, the positive things that he or
she did. Based on this positive outlook, we can build something
else. If you focus on the fault, you will never see the end of it.
You will judge the person. For me, the non-judgmental attitude
is important to enable the person to move forward and to make him or her feel
valued and listened to at the same time.
Pamela Aglae, Kinouete, a Mauritius NGO
that offers support for people leaving prison. Videos of Change:
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/page/2028109:Page:140975
More on the Mauritian experience p. 26
At first glance, the SALT steps can be similar to other project management
methods, but two things make a difference in SALT as an attitude: it is a positive
approach (we do not start from problems) and an inclusive approach that makes
much more creativity possible in a group because it allows freedom of speech
for everyone".
Hlne and Valry, Liboso Association, Belgium,
quoted by Emmanuelle Bricq, France Competence, May 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/une-association-belge-t-moigne-de-lapport-du-processus-salt-pour
"I feel that we are in another universe!" exclaimed a participant to a SALT event in
Mahebourgh, Mauritius, appreciating the reflection in a relaxed and joyful
atmosphere facilitated by the Groupe Renaissance and Autry Haynes.
Autry Haynes, April 2015 Newsletter
In Kabaale, by combining experience and wisdom of the older women and energy
and enthusiasm of the younger women, the community is finding local solutions
to promote health and well-being.
Rituu B. Nanda after visiting the Aging With Dignity Competence team in Uganda, April
2015, http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/salt-builds-cross-generationalrelationships-in-kabaale-communi-1
More on this partnership p. 31
SALT has changed Eunice Musubikas approach as counsellor,

for example with people on anti-retroviral therapy: I realized
that these people have their own strength and have been able
all along to live their own lives without our guidance. So I
decided to meet them as a group and discuss with them what
they think is best for them, what they think they can do and
ask them the resources they have which they can use to improve their nutrition
and eventually drug adherence.
Having fun at a SALT facilitation workshop in Mayotte. More on

this partnership p.35. Photo: Herv Guidou
Eunice Musubika, Health Nest Uganda, Uganda, April 2015,

http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/community-life-competence-has-mademy-work-easy-as-a-counselor
Collective intelligence is the answer and the facilitator is the

question. The facilitator questions, always anticipating a
potentially new answer, different... he keeps a spirit of
openness.
Herv Guidou, France Comptence, November 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/rae-personnelle-surles-processus-de-formation
Connecting as human beings with strengths and weaknesses

helps create the space where everyone brings something
substantial to the table. And when in this kind of space
everyone is valued and not judged, people tend to open up and
share more openly on what is not working, what are the
weaknesses because they are not scared. They do not fear that
they will face criticism. This can heal, build cohesiveness and encourage
innovative thinking and co-creation. There is much information and papers and
research on participatory tools and practice... but who talks about creating a
loving, non-hierarchical space!
The Constellation has clearly defined its vision on interacting

with local communities. This vision is described in the acronym
SALT that stands for Stimulate, Appreciate, Learn, and
Transfer. SALT is the DNA of the Constellation. SALT also refers
to Support, Authentic, Link, Listen and Team. The facilitators
of The Constellation believe in the possibilities of people to
solve their own problems. SALT directs the attention on what you would like to
reinforce or encourage (stimulate, appreciate) and reminds us to share our
learnings (learn, transfer).
Birgitta Schomaker, December 2015, http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/adeeper-level-of-humanity-my-introduction-to-salt-clcp-english
SALT takes communities on a journey to competence,

autonomy and relatedness by influencing a different
way of thinking towards a different way of working to
achieve common dreams
In this space, facilitators encourage community members to focus on strengths

and on authentic appreciation, thereby they realise that they have done a great
deal in the past. It gives them confidence in their own potential and they are
stimulated to take action.
Constellations SALT approach emphasises on listening and learning from others
to appreciate strengths. Appreciation can stimulate people to take action. SALT is
not about sweet, fluff or praise, but it is being appreciative of what is present.
And when you see this common humanity, and acknowledge that everyone in the
group has strengths, and these could be varied, you value diversity. Therefore, I
firmly believe that SALT could be one of the effective answers to bring peace,
both inner peace and peace between people.
Rituu B. Nanda, India Competence
Communities Acting Together to Control HIV (CATCH). More on this partnership p. 34

Theory of Change (Ownership) for the

Constellation
Our starting point A Theory of Ownership rather than a Theory of Change
Here is the starting point for the Theory of Change of the Constellation:
- Communities change themselves.
- We do not change communities.
This is not a glib truism. It is a design principle.
Our experience over 10 years and 63 countries is that communities can and do
respond to the challenges that they face when they take ownership of those
challenges.
The change that we own is sustainable change.
It is not sufficient to engage.

It is not enough to consult.
Rather we seek to accompany the community as it goes on the path to ownership
of their own challenge.
We call this path Local Response and we call the methodology that they use the
Community Life Competence Process (CLCP). We accompany the community as it
applies CLCP with an approach that we characterise with the acronym SALT
Our ending point
When a community takes ownership of the challenge that it faces, it is on the
road to sustainable change.
Our Pathway to Ownership

In the process which we use (CLCP) and the way in which we use it (SALT), we
accompany the community as it:
- Takes action based on its strengths to realise its dream.
- Learns from its experience on its journey to its dream.
- Inspires others, and is inspired by others, when it connects to learn and
share.
How we support ownership
This is the role of the Constellation as it accompanies the community on its path
to ownership:
- We develop and nurture the capacity to facilitate community discussion,
reflection, learning and action.
- We accompany communities on their journey to their dream.
- We connect communities to their peers locally, regionally, nationally and
globally.
The methodology of the Constellation
The Community Life Competence Process (CLCP) is a form of Learning (Deming)
Cycle where a community takes action and learns from its experience. That
learning becomes the basis for another round of action and learning. The cycle
goes on indefinitely, there is no end point. In the modern world, learning by
experience has to a considerable degree been overtaken by the concept of
learning from and through experts. The undervaluation of learning by experience
means that when any individual or community uses a learning cycle to learn from
experience it needs support both to start and to sustain the cycle of learning from
experience.
The steps of the learning cycle allow a community to divide an apparently
insurmountable challenge into a set of specific and manageable steps. While we
consider CLCP to be an effective implementation of the Learning Cycle, our
experience tells us that on its own it would not consistently open the door to
change. In addition, we support communities as they apply CLCP with an
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approach characterised by the acronym SALT. SALT is an acronym for

Support/Stimulate, Appreciate, Learn and Transfer.
We have found this approach to be effective in stimulating and supporting the

community through the challenges of working through the cycle. SALT plays
another vital and innovative role in linking the community with its peers so that it
can learn from their experiences and share its own experiences.
SALT kick starts the learning process and then it supports the community through
the hard work, and the inevitable setbacks, which leads to Life Competence.
In SALT and CLCP we have a very beautiful and powerful combination.
SALT tries to capture a way of thinking about CLCP. SALT seeks to appreciate
strengths. When we appreciate strengths, we recognise that people have the
capacity to act and to recognise that they have acted successfully in the past. This
says to communities that you are already on the learning cycle and here is how
you can continue to improve your situation through CLCP. And the steady
appreciation of strengths reinforces that recognition. SALT in a variety of ways is
supporting progress on the learning cycle. And this is indeed a big deal. Anyone
who has worked on a learning cycle knows that the challenge is to sustain the
momentum.
There is one other aspect of SALT that we would like to emphasise here and that
is the idea of transfer. When a community has taken action and learned from its
experience, there is a natural enthusiasm to share that enthusiasm with peers. As
part of this approach, we ensure that the community has the opportunity to meet
peers and to learn from the experience of their peers and to share their own
experience of these fairs. We call these events Learning Festivals and one
objective of the Learning Festival is to codify the learnings from experience in
Knowledge Assets.
The steps in our Methodology
The Community Life Competence Process takes a community through a series of
steps that leads towards its dream. As they go through these steps, we
accompany the community with a perspective that is based on appreciating the
strengths of the community. The process and the perspective are mutually
reinforcing. When we appreciate the strengths of the community, the community
recognises its strengths and can base its action on those strengths. When the
community takes action and reflects on that action it recognises those strengths.
As the community moves through the process, each step documents progress,
but the real measure of ownership lies in the depth of discussion, the consistency
of engagement, and the joy of achievement that accompanies each step.
The Learning Cycle concludes with a review of actions. One aspect of this review
is the collection of material that allows the community to share its achievements
with its peers. This produces stories that document what the community has
learned from its experience and this forms the basis of the Learning Festival and
the Knowledge Asset.
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Once the community is comfortable that it has learned from its own experience
and from the experience of its peers, it is ready to start the learning cycle once
again to move it closer to its dream.
An overview of the Theory of Change (Ownership)

Here are the 3 elements that permeate the methodology used by the
Constellation:
- CLCP gives the community the tools that it needs to take action to deal
with its challenges.
- The steps in the process give the community a sense of progress, a
conviction that change is possible and the belief that they can be the
instigators of that change.
- Success in applying CLCP gives the community confidence that it can deal
with their challenges and that confidence is based on their personal
experience.
Our way of working (SALT) gives the community the confidence that it can deal
with their challenge. As we accompany the community, we appreciate their
strengths. The community comes to recognise those strengths, that they have
used those strengths to take action and that they can take action based on those
strengths.
Another aspect of our way of working (SALT) brings communities together so that
they can learn from the experience of their peers and share their own experience
with their peers. We call the event a Learning Festival and it serves both to
provide practical knowledge to allow more effective action and to allow peers to
provide support and encouragement.
This is non-linear process.
The steps in CLCP not only give the community practical experience of how to
deal with the challenge, they also give the community confidence that it can deal
with the challenge.
When the facilitator accompanies the community with a mind-set of SALT, the
community comes to recognise that it has strengths that it can use, but it also
leads the community to rejoice in those strengths and to have confidence that it
has the capacity to deal with the challenge.
When the community takes part in a Learning Festival, it not only learns from the
practical experience of its peers, but it also takes pride in the fact that their
experience is valued and used by their peers.
In this neighbourhood lives a very diverse population, with all the

problems that occur often in such a situation for the native
population: misunderstanding, mistrust, isolation, discrimination,
prejudices and language problems. A bookstore was sacked
several times and BelCompetence was called to the rescue. At the
first meeting, 3 facilitators faced 4-5 people! They listened, spoke
of dreams ... but without representation. Every inhabitant that attended this first
meeting was invited to ring at a few doors for the next meeting which brought
together 15 to 20 people. They decided to organise a neighbourhood party that
would gather many people. It was decided to install a dreams box in the
neighbourhood where everyone can put his or her dream. From there was
developed the common dream: spaces open to all, workshops, community
gardens, a new neighbourhood party and a meeting place. A little-used storage
room was made available to organise several weekly activities (cards, Repair
caf...). The atmosphere of the neighbourhood is transformed... to the point that
the town of Vilvoorde wishes to bring the approach to other neighbourhoods. The
project is under discussion.
Marie-Christine Swennen speaking about the Faubourg neighbourhood in Vilvoorde,
Belgium, Report of the 24-26 April 2015 Training of BelCompetence p.12.
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Awareness at two levels: I have a challenge

and I am not alone!
Can we imagine that there is a first step in the CLCP learning

cycle before Who are we? before introducing each other as
human beings? It involves an individual condition that could be
formulated as: "I have a challenge and I am aware that, by
joining my strength with that of others, I can carry out
sustainable response."
Laurie Khorchi, BelCompetence, July 2015
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/une-theorie-du-changement-pour-laconstellation
SALT home visits can stimulate that awareness:

Now one man and one woman from the second
home accompanied us. We were growing to a big
team doing home visits. The final home was where
we met a young girl who is a graduate. She said
that she was worried about conflicts in the village.
I want to take some action so that we can live in
harmony but I dont know how and with whom,
she said. Our SALT team mate who is from that
village and is also a young girl said she could join
hands with her. Our team mate, a young man, from another village said that he
can share his experience how he worked towards unity in his village. This was so
evident there were budding leaders in the village and there was another village
from whom this village could learn from. We, the external people, just had to
nurture this.
Rituu B. Nanda, August 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/salt-to-build-community-leadership
A sense of mutual trust is the foundation. As people realise we

are together and its possible to turn around the issue at hand,
these conversations will spiral out to activate multiple homes to
think of their own health, and possibilities for neighbourhoods
(public space) conversations for collective action by the
community will emerge.
Onesmus Mutuku, November 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/forum/topics/how-to-facilitate-a-communitydevelopment-process-salt-and-clc-in
Given the magnitude and severity of the

current challenges, we all recognise the
necessity to be part of networks to
encourage us to act and strengthen our
effectiveness. It is no longer possible to
expect that the solution comes from
others. We can and must act at our level,
radiating around us, like a brazier.
BelCompetence SALT Training Report,
August 2015.
By getting involved in the world of SALT, some partner

organisations have discovered their strength and began
searching their own way to act based on their strengths and
then by surrounding themselves by partners to expand their
actions.
Read the story of Taha Maatoug, Sihatouna (Our Health), Tunisia,
Transferring the SALT Approach in Health Activities, p. 47
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Reminding that we are all part of a better

whole with the Are we Human? question
First step of the Theory of Ownership of the Constellation:
Assumption: People who are going to work together need to
feel shared values.
Precondition: We have come together with a shared purpose
and a sense of who we are.
Tools and way of working: CLCP Who we are and SALT
Indicators: A sense of shared humanity, a sense of community
and optimism.
I think the question 'what makes us human' is a very critical question for the
community life competence process. It sets the stage for SALT. I acknowledge that
it is not easy to facilitate this exercise because it is a very philosophical question
and people do not seem to see its connection to development sector. But we
forget that those who facilitate are human and those whom we work with i.e. the
communities are also human. Therefore, why act like robots or machines?
When families are torn apart due to alcohol or drugs or anything, the families
want that person to come back to the family and they are willing to provide the
needed support. Our families are not perfect but we are happy to be together.
Autry Haynes, April 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/just-being-human,
A bring and share get together at Carr dAs, Mauritius,

August 2015. Photo: Pascale Paul
Rituu B.Nanda
Are we human?
We
We
We
We
We
We
have a heart and we got emotions

have compassion
can express our feeling
have the capacity to dream and realised it
can take responsibility
share love among us
It [The Constellation] is about life in community without borders! In fact, we work

from different places, on different issues, for different goals, but sharing
strengths, dreams, concerns and life experiences in true community. Life in
community is more than important but the essence of humanity. In Africa, we
name it 'ubuntu' (being a person): 'a muntu u muntu ka bantu'(true humanity is
about being with humans). Therefore, for me, the Constellations is the essence of
humanity.
Joao Arnaldo Vembane, Mozambique, September 2013
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/forum/topics/what-is-the-essence-of-the-constellation?
Families of Mahebourgh, Mauritius, April 2015
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Reminding What is at Stake with the What

is your Dream? Question
"Without dreams, we can see the world only as it is and we are
blind to how it can be. Dreams give us a vision of a better
future and the hope to work for it."
Rituu B Nanda
Second step of the Theory of Ownership of the Constellation:

Assumption: People who have a shared dream can contemplate
shared action.
Precondition: We have a dream and we understand the power
of dreams.
Tools and approach: CLCP The Dream and SALT
Indicators: A dream in text and/or graphics. Enthusiasm and
commitment of participants. Numbers involved in dream.
Engagement in group dream.
Each group of four or five made a drawing. Everyone has his or

her own problems and his or her own dreams But we realised
that we all wanted a better world even though we are four or
five different people. We all have the same dream. This is the
best session I have participated to.
Jim, AILES, Mauritius
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/page/2028109:Page:140975
It was the first time that we expressed our

individual dreams in the group. Since that
conversation where we jointly built our
common dream, I really feel involved, whereas
before I was just following my husband from
distance. I now fully own our common dream,
says Stephanie. Her friend with the same name
adds: Once we drew up our common dream,
this all became real. It gave us the words, the
image to express what we are about. We
started sharing with others with confidence.
Our dream became a living reality.
The Amitoyens, living in co-housing with a diverse group of families and individuals.
Marlou de Rouw, April 2013, http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/lesamitoyens-celebrate-progress-since-we-defined-our-dream-it-be,
More on this story p. 28
Some of us had some difficulties and reluctance to indulge a dream, because the
idea is attached to the notion of childishness, social uselessness...
Rama for e.g. thought it was more appropriate to speak of ambition rather than
dream, but when he saw the
mobilising power of the dream by
living it and by facilitating it in turn
in his community, he discovered
that dreams bring more to the
future than ambition.
Herv Guidou, November 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile
s/blogs/un-jour-j-ai-r-v-de-mayotte,
more about Communities Competent to
Take Care of their Health in Mayotte p.
35
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Serious, Engaged and Challenging Discussions

to Move from Dreams towards Action with the
Self Assessment and the Action Plan
Practices of differently-able persons in pursuit to their common dream "Living

comfortably in our (Cheshire) Home
Third step of the Theory of Ownership of the Constellation:

Assumption: People see the possibility of action when they
create THEIR practices to reach THEIR dream
Precondition: We understand the skills we need to reach our
dream.
Tools and approach: CLCP Practices Definition and SALT
Indicators: A set of practices for Self Assessment framework. A
sense of moving from dreams towards action.
What I really liked about the SALT way of working, was the step bridging dream
and plan by describing 'practices'. When working with groups, I oftentimes find
this a challenging step: how do you avoid get too much down to earth too soon?
How do you keep the spirit of the dream alive? During the weekend we explored
practices. Practices describe core elements of the dream as if these happen
right now, in clear language. By using these concise, tangible statements, the
dream is specified without watering down the imagination of the participants.
Subsequently the group assesses its current state by taking a close look at the
practices: to what extent do we currently live or embody these practices as a
community?
Birgitta Schomaker, December 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/a-deeper-level-of-humanity-myintroduction-to-salt-clcp-english
Autry Haynes, September 2015, http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/steppingstones-to-their-dream, more on the Mauritian experience p. 26
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Fourth step of the Theory of Ownership of the Constellation:

Assumption: When people know their current situation and
their destination, they can contemplate action.
Precondition: We recognise our skills. We know the skills we
need to move forwards.
Tools and approach: CLCP Self Assessment and SALT
Indicators: Practices for Self Assessment. Completed Self
Assessment. Serious, engaged and challenging discussion. Levels
agreed by consensus rather than by voting.
For each practice auto-evaluated, members assess their community at a level

between 1 and 5:
5. We act naturally
4. We act voluntarily
3. We act once in a while
2. We know enough to be able to act
1. We know, but not enough to act
The Platform moved from ideas into action on 2 priority practices. And by getting
a deeper understanding of what level 5 means, they decided the road ahead is
longer, yet clearer. This explains the fall back on 3 practices. It was a very honest
Self Assessment with some good discussions!
We have been using the community life competence process (CLCP) to develop a
Self Assessment framework for domestic workers on decent working conditions.
This is in Delhi under an ILO (International Labour Organisation) partnership with
Institute of Social Studies Trust. In CLCP, after the communities develop a
common dream, we facilitate Self Assessment i.e. where they are in terms of their
dreams and where they want to go. Similarly, under this project in a workshop
about 20-25 domestic workers did their Self Assessment and then selected two
priority practices on which they would take action in the coming three months.
Rituu B. Nanda, July 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/salty-home-visits
Joke Dhaese, The Drug Platforms' Second Self Assessment in Mauritius, November 2014,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/photo/the-drug-platforms-second-selfassessment?context=latest
Self Assessment, specific to the community, offers it a space to build its identity.
And a space to circulate vital information, sometimes unexpectedly.
Jean-Louis Lamboray, What makes us human? p.98
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Fifth step of the Theory of Ownership of the Constellation:

Assumption: When people create an Action Plan in writing,
there is a shared commitment to action.
Precondition: We know what we are going to do. We can do
this.
Tools and approach: CLCP Action Plan and SALT
Indicators: Priority Practices. Completed Action Plan. Actions?
Time? Resources? Commitment by individuals to action. Small,
doable actions. Energy to take action.
Le Pont Du Tamarinier reflects on action planning

Introduced to the SALT approach at Lallmatie, a group of women working for
'equal opportunity for people' in the Black River district asked Autry Haynes,
Constellation Coach, for a three day workshop to reflect on the SALT way of
working. This workshop took place the 21 July, 30 July and 4 August, 2015. Since
then, the group organised a Bring and Share meal. They discussed how to
make action planning more rewarding and impacting? Here are some of their
thoughts: encourage conversation and original ideas; give it time, try not to rush
the planning process; work only on one or two practices at a time, even
temporarily setting aside the priority practices to address those that seem more
accessible, to become more familiar with the way of working.
Autry Haynes, August 2015, http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/bring-andshare-inspires-saltiness-within-le-pont-du-tamarinier, More on the Mauritian experience
p. 26
How much time does a CLCP cycle take?

It is the communitys choice. Stepping forward according to the communitys
availability allowed Carre dAs' Local Response to come to life. To lead to its
priority practice: We have effective communication between neighbours, the
community has chosen to achieve a clean-up campaign as SMART activity. It will
participate to another practice that the group would like to develop: We take
care of and maintain our communitys environment. Every other Saturday, the
community dedicates one hour to an activity, and the following Saturday to a
reflection after experience and planning of a new activity.
Autry Haynes, September 2015, http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/whatworked-the-experience-of-carre-d-as-local-response?xg_source=activity. More on the
Mauritian experience p. 26
As we organised in an association with the aim of participating in the promotion

of health in the region, we are invited to several meetings to discuss regional
health issues. Often, we begin those meetings as participants and finish them as
facilitators. Without thinking, we start engaging stakeholders to replace "exposed
problems" by "situations to be improved" the "demand of solutions" to
"proposals for action", the question "What can the Ministry for us?" To "What can
we do ourselves?"... So, the organisers who thought they would conclude their
meetings by an application for aid to the regional health management or the
Ministry of Health, find themselves with action plan proposals issued by
representatives of the civil society who have just discovered they have strengths
and the potential to initiate change.
Taha Maatoug, Sihatouna (Our Health),
More on Transferring the SALT Approach in Health Activities p. 47
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When We Act following our Dream, We Do It

with Pleasure and Pride.
Sixth step of the Theory of Ownership of the Constellation:
Assumption: When people take action, they begin to see their
own capacities.
Precondition: We have made progress. We have done this
ourselves.
Tools and approach: CLCP Actions and SALT
Indicators: Evidence that deliverables in Action Plan have been
delivered. Pleasure and pride in actions taken.
Working together has made the Platform stronger: Interacting to accomplish the
tasks of our action plan has reinforced the fact that we can work together. The
experience of working together added coherence and support to the advocacy
and communication strategy for the intended visibility of the Platform.
Meetings between the Platform and the Ministry of Health foster an entry point
for good relationship with the Government.
Photo: Joke Dhaese.
Autry Haynes, Drug Platform News brief for May 2015

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Learning by Finding out What Works Well,

and What We Would Like to Amplify
Seventh step of the Theory of Ownership of the Constellation:
Assumption: When people look back at their achievements,
their pride in those achievements grows.
Precondition: We know where we go to. We know what we
learned. We know how to do better next time. We want to
share
Tools and approach: CLCP Review and SALT
Indicators: Documentation of review. Documentation for learn
and share. Recognition that there is more to do. Pride in
Achievement.
Projects run by facilitators of The Constellation are continuously evaluated in an

appreciative way by using an instrument called After Experience Reflection,
which is a way to learn from each and every experience. Lessons learned are
shared with other facilitations within the same community or transferred to other
communities. Truly a learning organisation, The Constellation. Learning by
pointing out what works well, and stressing what you would like to amplify.
Exploring what can be improved with an open mind. I find it fascinating to
discover aspects of Theory U and Appreciative Inquiry in the vision and approach
of The Constellation.
Whatever will result from the standoff between the opposition and the current
authorities, Racines de lEspoir believes that young people deserve better than to
engage in violence by which they come off victims. Hence we set up inter-district
meetings of youth with different social, ethnic and geographical origins to help
them acquire the competences to act against manipulation which would push
them to hatred and electoral violence.
Racines de lEspoir has selected a first team of young facilitators who hosted a
first meeting June 10, 2015 in a neutral area where everyone could feel safe.
During the after experience reflection, the facilitators shared having been
pleasantly surprised by the ease and enthusiasm with which young participants
expressed themselves.
Read the story of Eric Uwintwaza, Racines de lEspoir, Burundi,
Restoring the ability of young people to dream and to act, p. 39
Youth of three villages, Carr d'As, Tamarinier and Bourgainvillier, got together to
start a Youth Club. Six month after, Francesca of Le Pont du Tamarinier used the
After Experience Reflection as a tool and entry point for SALT engagement. What
have they learnt since they have the Youth Club? Self-esteem; Take care of each
other; Communication; There is something new that live in us and which ignites
us; Village force; Support each other; Acceptance of each other!!!
Autry Haynes, September 2015, http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/afterexperience-reflection-a-tool-and-entry-point-for-salt

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We Love to Learn and Share. It Gives Us

Energy and Joy
Eighth step of the Theory of Ownership of the Constellation:
Assumption: When people share what they have learned and learn
from their peers, there is a renewed energy to go and do better.
Precondition: We know where we go to. We know what we
learned. We know how to do better next time. We want to share
Tools and approach: CLCP Learning Festival and SALT
Indicators: Energy and joy in learning and sharing. Stories in format
for Knowledge Asset. Start of Knowledge Asset.
This Tuesday, 19 May, 2015, I had the opportunity to facilitate a Skype meeting
between Hlne and Valry of the Liboso association (Belgium) and the local
committee Together for Health for All in the Pays de Redon (Britain) who is about
to try the adventure of SALT. A very rich exchange between a Belgian organisation
and a French organisation where Share and Transfer took their full meaning!
Thank you Hlne and Valry for taking the time to share your experiences, and
congratulations to BelCompetence and RDC Competence for accompanying this
process with the medical houses of Marolles and their Congolese partners in the
Masina health zone, you have generated enthusiasm and the desire to witness
and to go on!
Emmanuelle Bricq, May 2015, http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/uneassociation-belge-t-moigne-de-l-apport-du-processus-salt-pour
Constellation and Le Pont du Tamarinier invite you to the Global Learning Festival
from April 3rd-8th 2016 which aims to contribute to exploring systematically the
transfer of experience and learning. Communities inspire others when they
connect to learn and to share and for mutual support.
The learning Festival will offer communities in Mauritius to share their excitement
about what they are REALLY learning and especially what is making a difference
for them. At the same time they communities will have the opportunity to learn
from the wider Mauritius community and the visiting participants.
SALT is making a difference in our lives.we have been trying to bring members
of this community together like this for more than five years now...SALT has
accomplish this I am elated Aniele, leader of Le Pont du Tamarinier
This is the best thing that has happened to Mauritius on drugs in a long time. It is
the first time that all NGOs are working together, aiming at the same thing. ()
We have different approaches to the issue, but I see progress in the way every
platform member listens to the others. We also still have room for progress. ()
We cannot do it without communities. That would mean we cut ourselves off
from our roots. () Its time to take action! Laval Monet, Groupe Renaisance de
Mahebourgh.
For more information, contact Autry Hayes: autry@communitylifecompetence.org
Assumption: When people start the learning cycle once more, they
are on the road to sustainability.
Precondition: We have made progress. There is more to do. We
must start the cycle again.
Tools and approach: CLCP and SALT
Indicators: Revisit the dream. Serious review of the Self Assessment.
This feels as if this is the way we do things around here.
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Precondition: The cycle continues We will use what we have

learned to get closer to our dream.
The Outcome: This is how we deal with any challenge we
face.
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3. Support Teams Activities
The Constellation in numbers
2012
2013
2014
2015
Number of formal contracts that The

Constellation has signed and implemented since
2005
74
88
95
99
Number of partner organisations
49
56
63
65
Number of partners with 2 or more contracts
17
20
20
23
1716
1965
2057
Number of members of our on line community

set up in 2008
1544
Number of countries where CLCP has been

transferred
58
60
62
63
Number of coaches
68
68
68
68
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List of competences and countries that have developed them or

who plan to (in italics):
Competences
Countries
Aging with Dignity

Agriculture
Uganda
Kenya
Cambodia, Bangladesh, Philippines,
Solomon Islands and Zambia, with
WorldFish Center
India
The Netherlands, Guyana
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),
Guinea, Sierra Leone
DRC
Belgium, DRC, France, Ghana, Guinea,
India, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Tunisia
Philippines
India, Mozambique
Ethiopia
India
DRC, India, Kenya, Mauritius
Guinea, Mali, DRC, Sierra Leone
Burundi
Guinea
India, Kenya
Mozambique, South Africa
Australia
The Philippines
Aquatic Agricultural Systems

Bonded Labour
Business
Child Health
Cholera
Community Health
Dialogue between Religions
Disabilities
Disaster Risk Reduction
Domestic Workers
Drugs
Ebola
Entrepreneurship in Rural Areas
Environment Protection
Evaluation and Baseline
Faith-Based
Fire
Food Justice
Gender Dynamics (Including the Fight
Against Gender-Based Violence)
Governance
HIV
Human Rights
Human Trafficking
Malaria
Migration
Maternal Health s
Neighbourhood or Village Community Life
Network Strengthening
Nutrition
Organisational Planning
Palliative Care
Participatory Action Research
Peace
School Life and Education
Sexual and Reproductive Health
Men Involvement
Social Audit
Suicide
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
Youth Life
Guyana
DRC, Guinea, Sierra Leone, The Gambia,
Togo
Belgium, India
Benin, Guinea, DRC
Belgium, France, Indonesia, Guyana,
Kenya, Singapore, The Netherlands
The Netherlands
Sierra Leone
India, Indonesia
India
India
The Philippines
Belgium, Guinea, India, The Netherlands,
The Philippines, Sierra Leone, Singapore,
Burundi, Indonesia, The Philippines
Togo, DRC
India
India
DRC, Guinea, Guyana, Kenya, Surinam
Caribbean Islands, France, Guyana, India,
Kenya, Singapore, The Netherlands
These are examples of how the process was applied, and not specifically formalised
partnerships.
For more information, contact the coaches of the Constellation through our site at:
http://www.communitylifecompetence.org/en/pages/4-coaches-gallery.
Burundi, DRC, Guyana, Indonesia, Togo

Guyana
Burundi, Burkina Faso, Cte dIvoire,
DRC, Guinea and Rwanda with Solidarit
Protestante, Belgium, Guyana, India,
Indonesia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nepal,
Philippines, Spain, Tanzania, Togo,
Russia, Uganda
Guinea, Indonesia
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Global Support Team
Theory of Change (Ownership) of the Constellation

The Global Support Team (GST) of proposes the Theory of Change for the
Constellation. Find out here:
https://sites.google.com/a/communitylifecompetence.org/theory-of-change-forthe-constellation/.
SALT approach impact assessment proposition to the International Initiative for

Impact Evaluation (3ie) selected!
The agreement between 3ie (The International Initiative for Impact Evaluation)
and PHFI (The Public Health Foundation of India) has been signed. This is the start
of a 3-year project to demonstrate the effectiveness of the SALT approach to
increase immunisation coverage in Assam.
The GST dream for 2020:
The online Life Competence Community has 2000 members!

Thursday, 9 June 2015, a 2000th member joined the online Life Competence
Community. Thank you to our connecting star Rituu B. Nanda.
Blended Learning: online!

Thursday, 16 June 2015, Laurie Khorchi and Marlou de Rouw facilitated the first
online blended learning session with nine participants in Mayotte. A great
experience! says Marlou, a nice challenge, and we enjoyed to see how values of
face to face facilitation translate virtual as well. Facilitating online, surely as a new
experience, requires good preparation and focus of the team. I get out of our
discussions always fulfilled! said Sandrine Gillet of IREPS after the second session.
The group is still captivated (except 2 persons for medical and urgent reasons).
We reflect, discuss, question our practices, exchange, we do not wander to other
subjects, absorbed by the themes we work on. I see only the strengths! The group
thanked me after each module! I want to pass it to you. Even my colleague who
will be on vacation on July 8 will return just for the third Module! Kudos!
Blended learning is available in English, French and Spanish.
We see ourselves working together in a house, a house that provides us with an

open, safe, secure and welcoming environment. Within this house, the members
of the GST are juggling the balls of Care, Share, Learn and Transfer across the
globe to connect communities and individuals who wish to work towards the
dream of the Constellation. Through this work, we become a voice for Local
Response around the world.
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What Being Human REALLY Means

Country: Mauritius
Coaching: Autry Haynes (Guyana)
Time frame: Since February 2014
What our leaders need is to see each other as humansthen we are able to
break the barriers that exist between us Two young Israeli and Palestinian men
agree. Yes! To be human supersedes race, culture, religion, class, professionalism.
My experience is that Mauritius has contributed to an internalisation of what
being human REALLY means. Being SALTy also helped that process. I am usually a
Stimulating individual applied being Appreciative and being open to LEARNing in
my experience in Mauritius. It became more conscious to me and I appreciate
that ALL peoples have inherent strengths as humans that may be inhibited by
circumstances. However, once there is stimulation and people generally get into a
momentum, there will be need for nurturing so that a natural way of thinking and
working can be sustained and impacting where communities take responsibility
and ownership to pursue common dreams.
Three real experiences that demonstrate this capacity in Mauritius:

[1] Le Morne, a tiny village on the south west Mauritius, embraced me and
accepted me as family. Their humility inspired me differently.
[2] Le Pont du Tamarinier, an equal opportunity NGO, is thinking and working
SALT in three communities. SALT has mobilised Tamarinier to do things differently
and EVEN better. In six months, SALT has made a difference for the NGO and
communities. SALT has changed our lives said a community member in
reference to the resounding outcome of a bingo to stimulate improved
communication between neighbours. The leader of the NGO, Aniele, says: we
wanted this community to be involved like this for five years now, SALT made this
happen... I am elated.
Since then, other sister NGOs are coming on board to taste SALT (^_^).
[3] The Platform on drugs whose vision for a safer Mauritius with respect and
dignity and less stigma and discrimination, stimulated one NGO, AILES, to apply
SALT with Peer Educators to more meaningful engagement in communities. The
dream of the Peer Educators include ....reducing social ills in the communities
they work with and have identified practices [a] We work as a team with
appropriate communication, being non-judgemental and we do effective followup, and [b] We have an approach that helps us to build trust between us and the
communities.
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Blogs:
HAYNES Autry, "Paper Pull" in SALT, 21 March 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/paper-pull-in-salt
COTTE Annick, DIX ANS DE CHRYSALIDE : Dans un cocon despoir, 7 March 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/dix-ans-de-chrysalide-dans-un-cocon-despoir
HAYNES Autry, Just being human..., 18 April 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/page/2028109:Page:140975http://aidscompetence.ning
.com/profiles/blogs/just-being-human
COTTE Annick, Une femme battante, 7 June 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/une-femme-battante
HAYNES Autry, "Bring and Share" inspires SALTiness within Le Pont du Tamarinier, 26
August 2015, http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/bring-and-share-inspiressaltiness-within-le-pont-du-tamarinier
HAYNES Autry, What worked.the experience of Carre dAs' Local Response!!, 1
September 2015, http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/what-worked-theexperience-of-carre-d-as-local-response
PAUL Pascale, Personal reflection about an outing with the men, 2 September 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/personal-reflection-about-an-outing-withthe-men
Photos:
HAYNES Autry, Centre d'Accueil de Terre Rouge (CATR), 30 June 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/photo/albums/centre-d-accueil-de-terre-rouge-catr
HAYNES Autry, Centre de solidarit, 30 June 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/photo/albums/centre-de-solidarit
HAYNES Autry, Espoir Revivre Barkly (ERB), 30 June 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/photo/albums/espoir-revivre-barkly-erb
HAYNES Autry, Etoile d'Esprance, 30 June 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/photo/albums/etoile-d-esp-rance
HAYNES Autry, Le Pont du Tamarinier, 14 September 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/photo/albums/le-pont-du-tamarinier
HAYNES Autry, AILES - Aides, Infos, Libert, Espoir et Solidarit, 10 December 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/photo/albums/ailes-aides-infos-libert-espoir-et-solidarit
Videos:
Videos of Change, http://aidscompetence.ning.com/page/2028109:Page:140975 (Starting
from Chandas video, transcriptions and translations available in comments in You Tube,
click on the name/ title in white).
HAYNES Autry, After Experience Reflection...a tool and entry point for SALT engagement
works..., 5 September 2015, http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/afterexperience-reflection-a-tool-and-entry-point-for-salt
HAYNES Autry, Differently abled at the Leonard Cheshire Home, 7 September 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/differently-abled-at-the-leonard-cheshirehome
HAYNES Autry, Inculcating the spirit of After Experience Reflection, 25 September 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/inculcating-the-spirit-of-after-experiencereflection
HAYNES Autry, Stepping Stones to their dream (^_^), 28 September 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/stepping-stones-to-their-dream
HAYNES Autry, Community to Community active in Mauritius....... Peer Educators,
responding positively, 25 November 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/community-to-community-active-inmauritius-peer-educators
Autry Haynes at a "bring and share party" organised by

Carr d'As, 22 August 2015. Photo: Pascale Paul.
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Facilitation of the SALT Approach with the Amitoyens

Group
Country: France
Coaching: Marlou de Rouw and Dolores Rey Novoa
Time frame: November 2014 - April 2015
'Amitoyens dream is to live in co-housing with a diverse group of families and

individuals. Careful: this is much more than bricks and a roof. Being Amitoyen is
an art of living where actions of daily life are consciously in respect of people and
nature around you. This is about growing your vegetables, cooking together. This
is about singing and about sharing. Materials and emotions. Living together,
really. But you may also shut your door.
Rita warns that reaching a dream as a community is not a given thing at all, even
though seemingly you have same interest. Lorenzo confirms: It took us 12
semesters, six years. To get to where we are now was not easy". Xavier adds:
"You have to accept conflicts. You have to accept that people come and go on
your path. And you have to work very hard, as individuals also, to educate
yourself, to grow and to learn in order to function in your community and really
contribute to its success. And so they did, over the years.
And what did SALT do to you?
SALT came as butter to us, shares Lorenzo with a clear voice. When a
Constellation facilitator came in our story, five months ago, we were like a
dromedary going steady on and on in our desert. We did not let go of our idea,
but we were also desperate as our goal did not seem to appear and we were not
sure where we were going. The facilitator told us: you are on the right way.
Thats all we needed.
It was the first time that we expressed our individual dreams in the group. Since
that conversation where we jointly built our common dream, I really feel
involved, whereas before I was just following my husband from distance. I now
fully own our common dream, says Stephanie. Her friend with the same name
adds: Once we drew up our common dream, this all became real. It gave us the
words, the image to express what we are about. We started sharing with others
with confidence. Our dream became a living reality.
Extracts from Marlou de Rouws blog, Les Amitoyens celebrate progress: "Since we defined
our dream it became a living reality", 3 April 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/les-amitoyens-celebrate-progress-sincewe-defined-our-dream-it-be
Other blog:
CALDY Stephanie, News from the Amitoyens, in Great Geneva Area! 24 March 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/news-from-the-amitoyens-in-greadgeneva-area
Photos:
DE ROUW Marlou, Amitoyens, 3 April 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/photo/albums/amitoyens
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Community Management of Child Survival in 35 Health

Zones (Katanga and Kasai 1&2)
Country: Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
Coaching: Emmanuelle Bricq (France), Eric Uwintwaza (Burundi), Blaise
Sedoh (Togo), Dolores Rey Novoa (France and Spain), and, for remote
support, Marlou de Rouw (France and Netherlands)
Time frame: December - April 2015
Since June 2012, communities of the Katanga and Kasa provinces started Small
Doable Actions* to develop the Family Essential Practices** for child survival,
particularly that of full immunisation. Combining CLCP and SALT with the
Community Management of Complete Immunisation (GCVC), the DRC facilitation
team, RDCC, and the Constellation facilitated the process with financial support
from UNICEF and the Atlanta Centre for Disease Control (CDC). This year, the
Constellation team facilitated the process including development of combined
tools, training of 215 facilitators, development of a manual, on-site
accompaniment, remote support and participatory Monitoring and Evaluation in
35 health zones.
Photos:
BRICQ Emmanuelle, Revue participative du projet GCSE - Fvrier 2015, 17 June 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/photo/albums/revue-participative-du-projet-gcse-f-vrier2015
Blaise Sedoh facilitating the participative review of the GCVC project at Mbanza Ngungu, Bas Congo,
DRC, February 2015. Photo: Emmanuelle Bricq
* Small Doable Action, Petites Actions Faisables (PAF) : A PAF is a concrete and
measurable action, meaningful and relevant, implemented to introduce a change. It can
be a change of habit. A PAF is easily implemented with the available resources, without
outside help. It can be individual, but it will be even more effective if it is collective, that is
done through the commitment and effort of the majority of the members of the
community and consensual, i.e. it is not imposed, it is based on voluntary adherence.
** The five Essential Family Practices and two subsidiaries: Complete vaccination;
Exclusive breastfeeding for at least the first 6 months after birth; Consistent use of
insecticide treated bed nets; Washing hands at five critical times during the day;
Accompaniment of women by their partners, during pregnancy or delivery; Census
registration of new born babies within 90 days after birth; Childrens schooling without
gender-based discrimination.
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SALT for Spices and other development programmes in

Maluku
Ouw bersih: villagers in Ouw are building the

first waste management place on the island of
Saparua, November 2015. Photo: Kees Lafeber
Country: Indonesia
Coaching: Marlou de Rouw, for the Constellation, and Charlie Munster, for
TitanE, Dutch Moluccan NGO.
Fundraising support by Dolores Rey Novoa and Lois Hutubessy
Time frame: January-March 2015
From 20 February to 3 March 2015, a new team of SALT facilitators trained in
Maluku, Indonesia. This team now accompanies farmers who have a dream for
fair prices for their spices especially nutmeg (pala) and other development
programmes in Maluku, such as clean environment and drink water. The coaching
team witnessed great transfer of the SALT approach: Ooh! This is the SALT
approach, says our translator during our first day of the CLCP workshop in Ambon.
I know that, it is the way of working of UNFPA Indonesia! And off she goes,
running the show for us. SALT spreads faster than the virus and out of our
control! UNFPA Indonesia invited, on multiple occasions (in 2006, 2007, 2009
and 2010), individual coaches of the Constellation to support their ongoing
spread of Community Life Competence in the country.
Since then, with some distance support by Marlou, SALT travelled via various
people and groups in Maluku. The Pala plan is taking concrete form and
fieldschools have been established. A womens group in the village of Ouw has set
up income generation through ceramic sculpting. Some communities are active in
cleaning up their villages. Early 2016, three Constellation interns, students from
Amsterdam University College, will add another SALTy grain to those processes.
Pala Plan: farmers seeking a fair price for

their spices. Photo: Marlou de Rouw
Sandra, a SALT facilitator without any

Constellation contact before, runs the show.
Photo: Marlou de Rouw.
Self Assessment on the beach...

Photo: Marlou de Rouw.
Blogs:
DE ROUW Marlou, The people from Lima join forces, 23 February 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-people-from-lima-join-forces
DE ROUW Marlou, Villagers of Hatu in action towards their dream, 27 February 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/villagers-of-hatu-in-action-towards-theirdream
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Support for Improving Health & Well-Being of Older

Persons
Country: Uganda
Coaching: Rituu B. Nanda (India) and remote support of Marlou de Rouw
Time frame: From 15 to 24 April 2015
Constellation facilitator, Rituu B. Nanda, was invited by Health Nest Uganda and
the Medical Research Council to:
- Participate in further development of the proposal for improving the
health and well-being of older persons by building a sustainable model of
care in Uganda;
- Advise on the development and coaching of the CLCP/EASYCare Distance
Learning module for the facilitation team in Uganda;
- Work with the core team on how to share activities of Ageing with Dignity
Uganda competence on the Constellations interactive platform
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/;
- Sharing and learning with the team on how to evaluate the upscaling of
the new way of working using CLCP/EasyCare approach;
- Participate in further development of participatory Monitoring and
Evaluation methods for the Health & Well-Being of Older Persons
program.
Visit of the Kabaale community in Entebbe. Photo: Eunice Musubika
Blogs:
NANDA Rituu B., SALT builds cross-generational relationships among older & younger
women, 27 April 2015, http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/salt-builds-crossgenerational-relationships-in-kabaale-communi-1
MUSUBIKA Eunice, Community life competence has made my work easy as a counsellor,
25 April 2015, http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/community-lifecompetence-has-made-my-work-easy-as-a-counselor
Photos:
MUSUBIKA Eunice, Uganda competence- 15th to 24th April 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/photo/activeageing/prev?context=album&albumId=2028109%3AAlbum%3A146330
MUSUBIKA Eunice, Community life competence works as better approach to create HIV &
SRH awareness and counselling among young persons, 15 May 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/community-life-competence-works-asbetter-approach-to-create-hiv
SCHOLTEN Francien, Where we are in terms of documentation of our work with the
communities? 23April 2015, http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/where-weare-in-terms-of-documentation-of-our-work-with-the
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Communities Competent to Take Care of their Health, the

SALT Approach in Reunion
Country: France
Coaching: Jean-Louis Lamboray, Laurie Khorchi, and remote support of
Marlou de Rouw
Time frame: From 2 to 6 March 2015
March 2015, in the Reunion Island, Laurie Khorchi and Jean-Louis Lamboray
facilitated training on community health, Act With and For the Population, in a
partnership with the IREPS Reunion (Education and Health Promotion Regional
Instance). Cedric Pedre, Director, shares how the association has implemented
the approach:
Finally, in a more innovative approach, we will start the accompaniment of two

neighbourhood communities in a SALT approach structured in 10 meetings that
we called "the IMAGINE workshops!" (Yes, let us imagine a better world and build
it!). We will accompany this process with an audio-visual documentary-style
production with testimonies. These videos could serve as a nice evidence of the
process. There will be one video for each community. The idea is that, instead of a
"written report", the community members will share their projects and feelings
on screen.
We have other projects next year. Although it remains financially very
complicated, we are led by the energy of SALT!
Blogs:
LAMBORAY Jean-Louis, Le cercle de parole, un outil prcieux! March 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/le-cercle-de-parole-un-outil-precieux
BERNARD Honorine, Qu'est-ce que j'ai appris, April 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/page/2028109:Page:140975http://aidscompetence.ning
.com/profiles/blog/list?user=0lwozkro86hrt
We have initiated a number of things around here with SALT that we took the
time to make our own. So I proudly share the three concrete steps we are taking.
The first is the integration of a module on community-based approaches in the
training of social workers (young children educators, specialised educators, 120
students). Sebastian and facilitated the training. We made them aware of
attentive listening and caring, SALT and the life competence cycle. In the module,
we also integrated a meeting with communities in small groups of 4 to 5. 18
communities participated. The students went to meet them, got to know them,
and identified their strengths, their dreams, their practices. Last week, we invited
the communities to a great Knowledge Fair. Students shared about the
community that they met, and what they learned formulated as a lesson (If ....
then ....). It was a great day!!!!! Beautiful lessons, enchanted communities. Rich
exchanges and today students are engaged and involved in these communities. A
real joy!!!
Secondly, we used the SALT approach during a training we conducted with a
group of a dozen people and, again, very strong human time, a solid group,
motivated to continue.
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Introducing the SALT Approach to Student of the

Hogeschool van Amsterdam
Country: The Netherlands
Coaching: Boris Alberda, Los Hutubessy and Marlou de Rouw
Time frame: 25 August 2015 and 29 September 2015
Experience Reviews, which was one of their favourite parts of the approach.
Always with tea and biscuits, this would be their moment of constructive causerie
and peek of excitement Los Hutubessy
Blog:
HUTUBESSY Los, SALTing the Hogeschool of Amsterdam, 13 October 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/salting-the-hogeschool-of-amsterdam
Tuesday, 25 August 2015, Constellation coaching team, Boris Alberda and Marlou
de Rouw, facilitated the first day of the introduction week of the Minor in
Development studies at the Hogeschool Amsterdam. The aim of the day was to
create a SALTy mind-set with the students who will spend a great part of their
year abroad. In a follow up of that day, on Tuesday, 29 September 2015, Boris
Alberda and Marlou de Rouw equipped the students with tools to use during their
assignment abroad.
SALT already seemed so natural to them that they couldnt imagine behaving
otherwise! I remember when I did my first Self Assessment on SALT. I scored quite high, but the more aware I became of these behaviours, the more examples
I saw of facilitators in the Constellation, the lower I scored myself, so the more
learning space I found there to be Boris Alberda.
Dreams of students in the Hogeschool Amsterdam. Photo: Marlou de Rouw.
Los Hutubessy shared her experience with the team of the NGO, Le Pont Du
Tamarinier in Mauritius as an extremely enthusiastic one, with SALT running
through their veins. I explained at the Hogeschool how this team ran their After
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Communities Acting Together to Control HIV (CATCH)
a Dream. We are used to looking at the communities out there for change, while
forgetting our work place community, Sarah Ranko NACA, Botswana.
Country: Botswana
Coaching: Onesmus Mutuku (Kenya), Ricardo Walters (South Africa) and
distant support of Marlou de Rouw and Loli Rey Novoa
Time frame: three support visits, from 8 to 19 June 2015, from 31 August
to 4 September 2015 and from 23 to 27 November 2015
We are not left out; we feel part of this as it has come through the Kgosi. CATCH
is different from the way other activities are introduced to our communities, Otse
Community member Dream Building Session.
We have always been there, but were never invited before, one Kgosi reflected
during the CATCH workshop.
The Constellation is supporting the National AIDS Coordinating Agency (NACA)

and UNAIDS to develop capacity for facilitation of the CLCP through a pilot phase
of the CATCH programme in one district, Gaberone.
The results of the first visit were:
1.
35 potential facilitators completed the first stage in becoming CLCP
facilitators by learning about and practising all elements of the CLCP. They have
formed 5 community facilitation teams with each comprising of at least 1 Kgosi
(Chief or Sub-chiefs) from each 2 tribes, with which Phase 1 of the programme
will be implemented.
2.
The 5 community facilitation teams, 1 support organisation (HUMANA)
and policy makers drawn from UNAIDS, NACA, Ministry of Health and Local
Government have developed an action plan for the next two months (July and
August 2015).
3.
Policy makers, organisations and communities in Botswana show active
interest in adopting the SALT/CLCP community driven approach in their CATCH
strategy and activities. 13 of the facilitators have expressed interest in enrolling
for the Constellations e-learning course with remote support of Coaches,
Blended Learning.
The second support visit was dedicated to Dream Building and the third to Self
Assessment and Action planning.
In our work places we also have concerns regarding the people. Stigma is a big
issue, people are afraid of going for HIV testing This exercise was useful as it
stimulated us to think of ourselves in our workplace community and we now have
Blog:
MUTUKU Onesmus, The magical link between private and public is opening with CATCH, 1
October 2015, http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-magical-link-betweenprivate-and-public-is-opening-with-catch
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Communities Competent to Take Care of their Health, the

SALT Approach in Mayotte
Country: France
Coaching: Laurie Khorchi (Belgium), Jean-Louis Lamboray (Belgium), Herv
Guidou (France), Pamela Aglae (Mauritius) and remote support of Marlou
de Rouw
Time frame: June to December 2015
The Constellation supports the IREPS Mayotte (Education and Health Promotion
Regional Instance) and a local facilitation team to implement a community
mobilisation program to accompany Mahorais communities to take ownership of
health issues. The Constellation provided distance training and support for the
facilitation of SALT and the CLCP (Blended Learning) and an onsite learning event
in September 2015.
Long-distance accompaniment
"The biggest challenge of coaching at a distance is to create and maintain a warm
human relationship, instilling confidence in a context where we have never
physically met with the participants and where our only point of contact is a
computer.
One of the most important lessons we can draw from this experience is that, if we
wish to create a warm human relationship with a group with which we work
remotely, we have to work closely with an enthusiastic focal point that can share
with us the energy that drives the participants." Laurie Khorchi.
Form'Action
In mid-September, Herv Guidou, Laurie Khorchi and Pamela Aglae travelled to
Mayotte for a first "team learning from Mahoraises communities" called
Form'Action.
At the end of the six days training, participants joined the regional facilitation
team to contribute to the implementation of the Community Mobilisation
Regional Programme for Health in Mayotte.
Blogs:
GUIDOU Herv, SALT and me, 9 July 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/salt-et-moi
KHORCHI Laurie, Sur le chemin de l'appropriation du SALT Mayotte - Parution du premier
bulletin trimestriel, 31 August 2015, http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/surle-chemin-de-l-appropriation-du-salt-mayotte-parution-du
AGLAE Pamela, Our Salt visit to the Community of Chirougui, 19 September 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/our-salt-visit-to-the-community-ofchirougui
GUIDOU Herv, apprentissage..., 6 October 2015, translation in comments,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/apprentissage
GUIDOU Herv, Un jour j'ai rv de Mayotte..., 3 November 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/un-jour-j-ai-r-v-de-mayotte
GUIDOU Herv, RAE personnelle sur les processus de formation, 13 November 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/rae-personnelle-sur-les-processus-deformation
KHORCHI Laurie, La CRATIVIT au cur du transfert de l'approche SALT! 27 November
2015, http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/la-creativite-au-coeur-du-transfertde-l-approche-salt
Photos :
KHORCHI Laurie, Form'aCtion Mayotte, 29 September 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/photo/albums/form-action-mayotte
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Harmonization of the Community Development Practices
want for Malagasy communities and envision community dialogue as a tool to

achieve this dream.
Country: Madagascar
Coaching: Blaise Sedoh (Togo), Jean-Baby Fulama (DRC), Clicia Theys
(Belgium), Laurie Khorchi (Belgium), and remote support of Marlou de
Rouw and Loli Rey Novoa
Time frame: July to October 2015
Principles for action:

- If we closely involve our partners at every stage of our work, then we
facilitate their gradual ownership of the approach.
- If we introduce ourselves as human, accessible and vulnerable, then we
will give our partners the opportunity to do the same, and thus
strengthen our human to human relationships.
- If we progressively stimulate ownership of the approach by our partners,
then they will take more and more initiatives in facilitating.
- If, when we face language constraints, we accept to let go of the "control"
of facilitation, then we encourage our partners to settle into their roles as
facilitators.
UNICEF Madagascar called upon the Constellation to strengthen and harmonize

methods for facilitating community dialogue ("Dialcom" in local phrasing)
implemented nationwide by UNICEF partners as part of a program of
communication for development (C4D).
The general objectives of this partnership can be summarized as follows:
- Support the Government of Madagascar (sectors of Health, Child
Protection, Education, Nutrition and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene and
inter-sectoral Ministries of Communication and Youth) and other national
partners (including the Search for Common Ground NGO) in the
development of a harmonized guide of community dialogue for the
promotion of essential family practices.
- Strengthen the ways of facilitating community dialogues to reach
community empowerment and greater impact of the actions of each
sector.
- Stimulate the implementation of a common approach for all actors in
community development in Madagascar.
Steps of the Mission:
Preliminary step: initial consultation with UNICEF and its partners of the
ministries referred to above in Antananarivo.
Step 1: Mission of appreciation of community dialogue as practiced by each
sector in two southern regions: Atsimo Andrefana and Anosy.
Step 2: Knowledge Fair in Antananarivo: gathering up all sectors to exchange
dialogue practices, identify lessons from their experience, identify best practices
and develop knowledge assets.
Step 3: Harmonisation workshop enabling the various sectors to agree on a
common definition of community dialogue and its aim, and to dream of what they
"Grandfather who remained young at heart",

Blaise Sedoh, improvises a dream building
exercise with youth of the Maison des Jeunes of
Tular. Photo: Clicia Theys
Taking time to do an After Experience Reflexion

after each SALT visit allows the relationships
between facilitators to blossom. Photo: Jean Baby
Fulama
Blog: THEYS Clicia, A Madagascar : Amicalement vtre, le Transfert, 1 December 2015,

http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/a-madagascar-amicalement-v-tre-letransfert
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4. The SALT approach in other

organisations
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Declaring a State of Emergence, BelCompetence

Country : Belgium
First activities with SALT and CLCP: 2007
In 2007, the approach was introduced in Brussels during a training on AIDS. It

immediately impressed listeners and they created BelCompetence. The
association first focused on AIDS, but quickly widened its horizons increasingly to
diverse challenges (asylum seekers, wellness, citizen initiatives,...). The principle:
a spark is enough to awaken a community. The facilitator supports the
community in its path. But the approach also individually concerns us: it modifies
and enriches our relationships with our loved ones (family, friends, work, and
neighbours).
On 9 May 2015, members of
BelCompetence gathered to share
an afternoon high in emotions
about the question: Who are we?,
first step of the learning cycle of the
approach.
The highlights of this day were a
flashback to the story of each
participants
relationship
with
BelCompetence, expression of
values that resonate, identifying
one's place, and the appreciation
and exploration of tensions.
The reflection was developed
around a poetic image proposed by
Jan Somers: BelCompetence seen as
a source.
BelCompetence offers reflection and sharing opportunities: Sharing evenings (e.g.
facilitation experience, music, cooking,); SALT visits (e.g. students of the School
of Public Health visited primary health services of Brussels); CLPC and SALT
facilitation trainings; Reflections meetings (e.g. on conflict and peace).
It is urgent to declare a state of

emergence. The energy of our
transformation is available
deep within us. Let us discover
it and let it act to overcome
our fears, to go beyond our
judgments and to obliterate
our cynicism. Then we can
appreciate our differences as
so many sources of wealth. In
our neighbourhoods, towns,
associations, work, worship
and leisure places, let us
formulate our common dream
and use our own strength to
achieve it. From one place to
another let us stimulate the
creation of real living cells,
emanation of the emerging
world. Let us circulate between
these cells the energy of restored hope. Let us organize our powers so that we
put our public services, our public finances, our laws and our communication
organs at the service of the world of which we aspire deeply.
Jean-Louis Lamboray, December 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/d-clarons-l-tat-d-mergence
Other blogs :
LEGROS Nathalie, Syria, wishes of peace and community as third party, March 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/syria-wishes-of-peace-and-community-asthird-party
BROUHA Anne, Une runion o AIC (association internationale de charit) parle de son
application de lapproche SALT, September 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/une-r-union-o-aic-associationinternationale-de-charit-parle-de
Photos:
LAMBORAY Marie, Formation BelCompetence, 28-30 August 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/photo/album/show?id=2028109%3AAlbum%3A148826
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Restoring the Ability of Young

People to Dream and Act,
Racines de lEspoir
Country : Burundi
We built a foundation for the development of a more consistent and well thought
SALT program by putting together our strengths. Indeed, we have planned a
workshop to develop a common dream and sit a community competence
facilitation program, not to mention the competence of community of volunteers
themselves.
Eric Uwintwaza
LA FORCE DU PARTENARIAT
Volunteers young and old, we are

united in our differences in age, sex,
political opinion, religion,... We
decided that despite fears due to the
day by day deterioration of the
security and economic climate, we
should act upon our vulnerabilities
in solidarity. When certainly most of
our compatriots feel overwhelmed,
we feel that it is not the time to give
up but to continue to act, therefore
to live.
Hence, we win small but real victories that strengthen our belief that we could do
better. At first, we thought of a broad campaign with a lot of SALT, but we had to
scale back our ambitions because of the context of fear escalated in a context of
armed conflict.
At least some young people who initially viewed their peers as enemies have
joined us and we discovered together a common humanity in small gestures of
solidarity: visits of neighbourhood deemed inaccessible by some, blood donation,
follow up of joint training, sharing of hot meals, etc.
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Taking up Challenges with Available Strengths, RDCC

Country: Democratic Republic of Congo
The mission of RDCC is to support the Congolese communities to meet their
challenges on the basis of available resources and strengths. The association
includes a hundred volunteer facilitators throughout the country, mainly in chief
towns and big cities. Achievements: contribution to the 18% increase in
immunization coverage in Tanganyika (ex-Katanga), 10% improvement in
attendance at antenatal clinics in Kinshasa, intervention in the management of
the cholera crisis in Mbandaka, increased blood donations in the general referral
hospital of Kitonga in Central Congo,... RDCC does not solve the problems of the
population, but stimulates the community to find solutions at lower cost (small
doable actions). It encourages good practices.
The Concertation Provinciale of Facilitators of RDCC in Central Kasa
RDCC Sankuru in Oriental Kasa

April 18, 2015, 90 houses were burned in Longonya Dive. Community structures
such as schools, training centres and health centres were also burned. The trigger
of this disaster was an inter clan conflict for leadership between two brothers.
The RDCC team in Sankuru was the first to support the community while the
others sought funding agreements for intervention. The SALT approach does not
require financial or material resources from the community to solve its problems.
The Longonya Dive community members started to rebuilt the burned schools
and a health centre; they brought back the persons who fled the conflict and built
houses for them with a cooperative method, and concluded that the conflict kills
but does not help to go forward.
With the distance support of the RDCC Sankuru team and the local facilitation
team of three people, the community of Longonya Dive gradually takes
ownership of the Essential Family Practices (EFP) added with conflict resolution.
Among the six practices facilitated, four are much more supported: hand washing,
proper use of insecticide-treated nets, full immunisation of children from 0 to 11
months, and resolution of conflict. For these practices, many communities have
already carried out a second Self Assessment.
Paul Lokoto, RDCC Sankuru team coordinator, July 2015
Blogs :
FULAMA Jean-Baby, Foire dchanges Gestion Communautaire de la Sant de lEnfant
(GCSE) de la zone de sant de Kalenda, RDC, du 22 au 26 janvier 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/photo/albums/foire-d-changes-gestion-communautairede-la-sant-de-l-enfant-gcse
Monthly team meeting
Support visit in the district of Mwene Ditu
The team of facilitators of RDCC in Central Kasai (ex-Oriental) was initiated in

2010 with the project Support to Community Initiatives of the National AIDS
Programme supported by the World Bank. Today, the team evolves through
membership fees and local opportunities. Our contributions helped to formalise
our organisation in 2012 and, this year, we have bought premises for the
headquarters of RDCC in Mbuji-Mayi.
Thrse Nyemba, RDCC/KC team coordinator, December 2015
FULAMA Jean Baby, Small Doable Action, or in French Petite Action Faisable (PAF): the
statement unveils the spirit of concept, but the understanding..., March 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/small-doable-action-or-in-french-petiteaction-faisable-paf-the
See also the Community Management of Child Survival in 35 Health Zones (Katanga and
Kasai 1&2) p. 29
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New Star of the Constellation, France Competence

Country: France
autonomous in the resolution of their issues. Encourage and stimulate

cooperation practices and the appreciative approach summarised in the acronym
SALT (support, appreciate, learn, transfer). Train in project facilitation tools."
In partnership with the Constellation, France Competence facilitates the SALT
approach with the mutual health organisation, La Mutuelle en pays de Vilaine, in
Redon, Brittany. This partnership aims at supporting a group of institutions and
associations to develop and implement a new vision of "together health for all in
pays de Vilaine".
France Competence also organised a learning event in Echevenex in March 2015.
See also Facilitation of the SALT Approach with Amitoyens Group, p. 28,
Communities Competent to Take Care of their Health, the SALT Approach in
Reunion, p. 33, and Communities Competent to Take Care of their Health, the
SALT Approach in Mayotte, p. 35.
Blogs:
BRICQ Emmanuelle, Une association belge tmoigne de l'apport du processus SALT pour
encourager une association franaise se lancer dans l'aventure! May 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/une-association-belge-t-moigne-de-lapport-du-processus-salt-pour
GUIDOU Herv, SALT et moi, July 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/salt-et-moi
GUIDOU Herv, apprentissage..., October 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/apprentissage
BARRIERE-CONSTANTIN Luc, New partnership with La Mutuelle en Pays de Vilaine,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/new-partnership-with-les-mutuelles-enpays-de-vilaine
Birth of a galaxy like ours. Planets will be born in the clouds from dust around the star
Illustration : NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle (SSC)
http://www.linternaute.com/science/divers/dossiers/06/contestataires/13.shtml
This year has seen the birth of France Competence. France Competence members
will provide to the organisation a framework and a legal existence according to
the following proposition:
"Accompany individuals, collectives, communities in their process of creation,
transformation, transition toward their dreams and common aspirations.
Facilitate the capacity of these collectives, based on their humanity, to become
GUIDOU Herv, Revue Aprs Exprience (Redon 35600 - Bretagne), October 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/revue-apr-s-exp-rience-redon-35600bretagne
GUIDOU Herv, Un jour j'ai rv de Mayotte..., November 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/un-jour-j-ai-r-v-de-mayotte
GUIDOU Herv, RAE personnelle sur les processus de formation, November 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/rae-personnelle-sur-les-processus-deformation
BARRIERE-CONSTANTIN Luc, Marie's story - Histoire de Marie, December 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/marie-s-story-histoire-de-marie
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Synergy of Action against the Ebola virus,

Guinee Competence
Country: Guinee
As part of social mobilisation for the response against the Ebola virus disease in
Guinee, Guinee Competence has worked with a number of national NGOs
operating in community development (Centre for Research and Development Aid,
the African Development Learning Centre, Scouts of Guinee) in a consortium
called Project SACEG (Synergy Action Against Ebola in Guinee) for 3 months, from
March to May, 2015.
The action began with a plea to the authorities (15 prefects, sub-prefects 50 and
50 mayors of municipalities) to coordinate the response to Ebola. Guinee
Competence then participated in the organization of community meetings, film
screenings and educational sessions with associations of women and youth, with
the elders and with religious leaders in 200 districts and interactive radio
programs.
200 watch committees were set up, i.e. 1500 trained local actors who have
sensitised the communities door to door.
Ibrahima Diakite Khalil
The key to the fight against Ebola epidemics lies in the promotion of confidence in
both the capacity of communities and of primary health services. This confidence
is essential to create a space for dialogue, reflection and action that combines
traditional knowledge, local capacity building, scientific information and modern
means of prevention and treatment.
Jean-Louis Lamboray
In Guinee, as elsewhere, wherever Ebola made its hurricane, medical staffs pay a
heavy price. -. In order to stop the infection of medical personnel in Macenta, the
initiative has been to develop skills enabling them to take ownership of the
situation so that appropriate preventive behaviour is an integral part of their daily
lives.
Work has also been done with the gendarmes and the police since both units are
in direct contact with the population.
Joseph Koivogui
Blogs :
KOVOGUI Joseph, Comptences face la maladie virus Ebola au milieu du personnel
mdical de l'Hpital prfectoral de Macenta/ Guine, 28 April 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/comp-tences-face-la-maladie-virus-ebolaau-milieu-du-personnel-m
KOVOGUI Joseph, Comptence au milieu du personnel mdical dans un centre de sant,
29 avril 2015, http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/comp-tence-au-milieu-dupersonnel-m-dical-dans-un-centre-de-sant
KOVOGUI Joseph, Comptence face Ebola au milieu des hommes dans l'uniforme
(gendarmerie et police), 12 May 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/comp-tence-face-ebola-au-milieu-deshommes-dans-l-uniforme
Dream building by the health

staff of the prefectural
hospital of Macenta, 28 April
2015. Photo : Joseph Kovogui
Self Assessment at the health

centre of Bowa,
neighbourhood of Macenta, 29
April 2015. Photo: Joseph
Kovogui
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Supporting People in Distress or Confronted with Suicide,

Connecting NGO
Country: India
First activities with SALT and CLCP: 4 years ago - primarily in the school peer
her and reconciled. Seeta succumbed to her burn injuries the next day afternoon.
The team subsequently visited her community and did a series of home visits and
came across 4 suicide survivors. In one home, a young man killed himself, after
he was accused of robbery. His younger brother happened to see this and since
then he feels acutely suicidal. The team is following up with the family to support
his brother and family.
educator based suicide prevention program and in the suicide survivor support
program.
This is an example of how an organisation that was focused on listening to

distress via the helpline is now in the homes and neighbourhoods of people who
are struggling with suicide related distress.
Connecting NGO is a listening organisation for suicide prevention and survivor

support manning a helpline. However, listening in itself is only a part of the story.
That individuals, families and neighbourhoods have the capacity to support those
who are in high suicidal distress, that survivors can heal and that communities can
prevent further suicides by caring for one another was not part of the
organisational thinking.
Today, after conducting a home visit to a suicide survivor or after a bed side
listening support to a suicide survivor, the volunteers debrief together regarding
the question "How did we SALT?"
SALT helped to systematically entrench that belief and the corresponding
behaviour. Now our volunteers start by listening, but they stimulate response
from survivors and community members. The volunteers feel relieved that the
communities are now healing, that the communities are now owning the
responsibility and the number of volunteers at Connecting have increased.
A common element that we share with our communities is the fact that we have
concerns and hopes. This takes us out into the community to listen to the
stories and share our being, our presence with them. This has placed us in a
variety of contexts e.g. with Policemen who have partnered with us to support
suicide survivors, with the District Authorities to negotiate for an opportunity to
listen to suicide survivors admitted in the hospitals, to appeal for volunteers for
suicide prevention, to be in awe of the community leader who has been working
hard to support people in difficult situations addictions, domestic violence,
suicides.
Our survivor support volunteers visited Ms. Seeta (name changed), 20 years of
age, at the burns ward. One of our volunteers listened to the survivor and
another team mate spent time with her mother and her 3 brothers.
Seeta was in love with a boy and eloped with him. In a few days, Seeta realised
that her partner was not the person whom she had understood to be and
returned back home. Her family accepted and consoled her.
Seeta felt disappointed of letting her family down and could not forgive herself
for what she had done. As a way of punishing herself, she doused herself with
kerosene and lit herself, while her family was fast asleep.
The team spoke to the family regarding her felt need for forgiveness. That night,
the family gathered around her bed and expressed their love and forgiveness to
Our engagement with people has allowed us to learn to appreciate. Those among
us who are financially better off watch the community members living a happy
life, with so little, and marvel why am I always grumbling, the community
ladies spoke about saving Rs. 100 in a month after the start of the self-help
group. For me, Rs. 100 is a fraction of what I spend one a single hotel bill. Do I
have too much?, SALT visits to the communities are helping me appreciate my
own and How can I listen better to my subordinates, when they come to with
their issues? Usually, I am ready with an answer. I am learning that often
compassionate listening is all that is needed.
Our struggle to go out where people are, not to be satisfied with the services
we provide inside, is opening our consciousness to the reality out there. Here
in lies our discomfort and our struggle of learning how to be with people in
their sufferings... and in responding to this discomfort with humility and
braveness has come our opportunities for learning and growth.
Bobby Zachariah
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A Deeper Level of Humanity - Getting to Know SALT and

CLCP, Dutch Competence
Country: Netherlands
The new in any system shows up first at the periphery, Scharmer states. You
could call Kerkrade, located near the border with Germany and Belgium a city in
the margin, or a marginalised city. Not only because of its geographic location,
but more so because of the big transformation this area has been going through
in the past decennia: the large monastery Rolduc closed (stronghold since the
12th century of the Vatican) and there was the closure of the coal mines.
Everywhere you look, you see remarkable individuals and communities that have
managed to break through the walls of trauma and tyranny in order to connect to
their deep sources of humanity. What are the conditions that make these
breakthroughs possible and allow miracles to happen time and again?
(Scharmer & Kaufer in Leading from the emerging future)
Kerkrade became marginalised, lots of people, businesses and institution leaving

the area. Instead of framing this as problematic, we focused on possibilities.
What is dying, and what is wanting to be born? is the recurring question or red
thread in Theory U material. During the weekend, we were introduced to local
civil initiatives in Kerkrade through so-called SALT-visits. These were promising
initiatives, characterised by inclusion: offering local community members ways to
participate and stay involved. ()
Ambitious to find out more about Theory U and Appreciative Inquiry in an

experiential way, I recently accepted Joke dHaese's invitation to partake in a
workshop for change facilitators organised by The Constellation in the south of
the Netherlands, in Kerkrade.
Scharmer and Kaufer wrote: The good news is that the world has enormous
unexploited potential in the form of inspired, intentional, and collective
entrepreneurship. But we need to be much more methodical about tapping this
dormant force to bring about global movements for good.
The 3-day workshop took place exactly a week after the terrorist attacks in Paris
on November 13th 2015. In the context of this event, I could not have imagined a
more uplifting and promising experience than attending this workshop facilitated
by Joke dHaese and Gemma van Voorst. I left the workshop with new hope,
experiencing the promise of the strong human connection that emerges when
applying the appreciative perspective for community building. I consider the
vision and approach from The Constellation a powerful way to generate the kind
of breakthroughs Scharmer & Kaufer refer to in the quote on top of this post. ()
With SALT and CLCP the network of facilitators from The Constellation have
indeed discovered trusted ways to activate dormant potential of communities. By
sharing success stories, stories of hope within the community of facilitators and
with other communities, The Constellation is one of the compelling worldwide
movements for positive global change.
During the weekend, Joke and Gemma guided us through the Community Life
Competence Process (CLCP), a cyclical model that is used to assist communities in
tackling their challenges. ()
No problem solving involved! Instead there is space for what wants to be born
(Scharmer), or in other words: the dream or vision. I found the first step in the
process describing what makes us human, describing the nature of humanity
intriguing. This first step creates connection between the people involved,
because universal values like respect, authenticity, responsibility and altruism are
emerging from the dialogue. ()
With gratitude to all participants, and a special thank you to Gemma & Joke for
embodying the SALT principles.
Other blogs:
Gemma van Voorst, A SALTY welfare organization, March 2015,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/a-salty-welfare-organization
See also SALT for Spices and other development programmes in Maluku p. 30 and
Introducing the SALT Approach to Student of the Hogeschool van Amsterdam p. 33
44
Nurturing a Space for Partnerships to Emerge,

Beyond Social Services
Country : Singapore
Our Reflection
Communities are messy. They have to be otherwise they would be organisations.
An organisation is a member of a community; either defined by place, association
or other kinds of identity. Yet many organisations are established to organise a
community; to serve it or to change it in some way. Hence, a part sets the agenda
for the larger whole. In a community there are usually several such organisations;
formal and informal with an agenda.
We are such an organisation and if we are to achieve our agenda of social
mobility for disadvantaged young people and their families, the very first thing we
need to do is to have an appreciation and an authentic respect for the nature of
community and the space we have chosen to work in. Community is a space with
a common identity and yet a space where many different identities co-exist;
sometimes peacefully and sometimes not.
A step toward more humanity requires us to constantly ask ourselves if this peace
is achieved through the strict containment or the joyful celebration of differences.
We must humbly appreciate that we are part of a larger whole and the sum of the
parts can only be more than the whole if we have enlightened partnerships with
others. The type of partnerships that believe, In our differences we grow; in our
sameness we connect.
The Work
In the spirit of SALT, we nurtured the space for partnerships to emerge. These
partnerships were stimulated by the following questions:
a) How can neighbours work together to support single-parent families with
young children?
b) How can families become involved in their childrens education in ways
that contribute to their success?
c) What can we do as neighbours to keep our children and youth away from
drugs?
d) What can we do to get youths to attend school?
e) How to stop youths loitering & disturbing residents in the
neighbourhood?
Nurturing this space was a constant application of SALT not just in a group setting
but with individuals and organisations during incidental and formal meetings as
well as during outreach, research, forum theatre, social activities and after
experience reflections.
Conclusion
It is not our differences that tear us apart but our inability to appreciate them.
Genuine appreciation of differences requires a willingness from all to be
influenced when participating in a discussion. Often minor adjustments based on
mutual respect, where there is learning and openness to other perspectives,
enable people from different backgrounds to acknowledge their sameness and to
strengthen their connections. SALT can be an effective mind-set and practice that
improve peoples ability to live with their differences.
Our differences have created a fractured world and peace is more often than not
a result of strict containment where people define their territories and build
communities along their sameness. A step toward more humanity means that we
must always be willing to learn how to connect with those who are different and
to celebrate our differences; not just across territories but within them.
As a practice, SALT is about appreciating differences as strengths, listening to
learn, listening to link and most importantly, transferring the insights into a
context for personal and collective change to happen. With practice it becomes a
habit of the mind and as a mind-set, SALT means coming to terms with the fact
that we are also a difference that threatens the peace in communities and our
larger world. As part of the problem, we have a responsibility to be part of the
solution and it begins with our willingness to see, appreciate, learn and think how
we can facilitate change toward more humanity. In our differences we grow; in
our sameness we connect is not just a theme but an essential call to action for a
peaceful world where people lead meaningful and joyful lives.
Gerard Ee
Blogs :
EE HUCK LIAN Gerard, 6 February 2015, Integration is better rehabilitation than isolation,
http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/integration-is-better-rehabilitation-thanisolation
In this pilot phase, the project encompasses 20 communities selected in 4

districts, 2 districts by health region of Kara and Savannah in the far north of
Togo. Nearly 31.200 people, women, men and youth, are involved.
EE HUCK LIAN Gerard, Creating a restorative climate Part 1 to 5, 23 July 2015,

http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/creating-a-restorative-climate-part-
Through the discussion raised by the community Self Assessment, the 20

communities defined their current competence levels and expressed their desire
to access higher levels of competence in the six essential family practices.
The SALT Approach for Children's Health,

Togolese Red-Cross and UNICEF
Country : Togo
During the Self Assessment sessions, everyone was allowed to speak and freely
give his or her views.
All communities have identified small doable actions (Petites actions faisables,
PAF), which are ongoing achievements, for example, sensitization meetings at
two levels, at the village level and the neighbourhood level, home visits,
educational talks, sensitization during cooperatives work (mutual aid),
sensitization sessions in mosques, "clean villages" days.
Communities acknowledge the EFPs and expressed several concerns related to
daily life.
Through the various community commitments, the implementation of PAFs and a
continuous monitoring of the implementation of the PAFs, we hope for progress
on EFPs, real behaviour change on the way to community dream.
Blaise Sedoh
Since 2013, as part of its partnership with UNICEF, the Togolese Red Cross runs a
project on Essential Family Practices (EFPs) for child survival and growth. In the
early years, volunteers were trained and asked to lead project activities in their
respective communities. Since the beginning of the project, outsiders to
communities conducted the monitoring and evaluation of the projects results,
leaving them passive. In 2015, in order to involve community members in a
participatory manner not only in the implementation of activities, but also in
monitoring and evaluating the level of implementation of EFPs in their
communities, partners agreed in introducing the community life competence
process applied to EFPs.
Transferring the SALT Approach in Health Activities,

Sihatouna (Our Health)
Country : Tunisia
We discovered the SALT approach as it was facilitated by the Constellation team
during a health project run by Mdecins du Monde Belgium in the Gafsa region
(Tunisia) between May 2013 and March 2015. This approach completely
influenced how we think, act and our relationship with those around us.
problems" by "situations to be improved" the "demand of solutions" to

"proposals for action", the question "What can the Ministry do for us?" To "What
can we do ourselves?"... So, the organisers who thought they would conclude
their meetings by an application for aid to the regional health management or the
Ministry of Health find themselves with action plan proposals issued by
representatives of the civil society, - discovered they have strengths and the
potential to initiate change.
We also appreciate the contribution of SALT in our activities in support of patient
associations which are seen as weak because they have limited public and special
needs. Moreover, after the revolution, the majority of donors who had worked in
Tunisia in general and particularly in the Gafsa region were interested in the
democratic transition, with elections to local governance,... Thus, these
associations did not have the opportunity to receive the capacity building
enabling them to be efficient for their target audience nor funding to serve their
audience. Many had a feeling of marginalisation. By getting involved in the world
of SALT, some partner organisations have discovered their strength and have
begun searching their own ways to act, based on their strengths and then associating with partners to expand their actions.
In fact, we think that SALT has the snowball effect; it will grow and include other
people.
Taha Maatoug
Seven months have already passed, not only do we continue to feel SALT in us,
but we appreciate the ease of sharing and transferring this "dream generator".
As we organised in an association with the aim of participating in the promotion
of health in the region, we are invited to several meetings to discuss regional
health issues. Often, we begin those meetings as participants and finish them as
facilitators. Without thinking, we start engaging stakeholders to replace "exposed
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The Constellation

Connecting Local Responses around the World

Annual Report 2015

3. Support Teams Activities .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 23

4. The SALT approach in other organisations ................................................................................................................................................................................ 25

Acronyms and Abbreviations

AIDS Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

1. Vision and Mission

2. Theme of the Report: In our differences

Wisdom does not just sit between the ears;

And with an affectionate nod to Jean-Louis, this is my learning: If I do not try to be

In our differences we grow; in our sameness

Humanising a problem is about improving

Many services medicalise problems; make a diagnosis and

To recognize that we are all human, we must get rid of our

If we introduce ourselves as human, accessible and vulnerable,

There is always a similarity (we are humans) so we should

Volunteers young and old are united in our differences in age,

Being there and sharing stories (to connect) and living

"Working in older people's care home was

The more we practise appreciation and discovery of

Live together, create a community

Communities Acting Together to Control HIV (CATCH) in Botswana

How? With a positive, inclusive and joyful

SALT has changed Eunice Musubikas approach as counsellor,

Having fun at a SALT facilitation workshop in Mayotte. More on

Eunice Musubika, Health Nest Uganda, Uganda, April 2015,

Collective intelligence is the answer and the facilitator is the

Connecting as human beings with strengths and weaknesses

The Constellation has clearly defined its vision on interacting

SALT takes communities on a journey to competence,

In this space, facilitators encourage community members to focus on strengths

Communities Acting Together to Control HIV (CATCH). More on this partnership p. 34

Theory of Change (Ownership) for the

It is not sufficient to engage.

Our Pathway to Ownership

approach characterised by the acronym SALT. SALT is an acronym for

We have found this approach to be effective in stimulating and supporting the

An overview of the Theory of Change (Ownership)

In this neighbourhood lives a very diverse population, with all the

Awareness at two levels: I have a challenge

Can we imagine that there is a first step in the CLCP learning

SALT home visits can stimulate that awareness:

A sense of mutual trust is the foundation. As people realise we

Given the magnitude and severity of the

By getting involved in the world of SALT, some partner

Reminding that we are all part of a better

A bring and share get together at Carr dAs, Mauritius,

have a heart and we got emotions

It [The Constellation] is about life in community without borders! In fact, we work

Families of Mahebourgh, Mauritius, April 2015

Reminding What is at Stake with the What

Second step of the Theory of Ownership of the Constellation:

Each group of four or five made a drawing. Everyone has his or

It was the first time that we expressed our

Serious, Engaged and Challenging Discussions

Practices of differently-able persons in pursuit to their common dream "Living

Third step of the Theory of Ownership of the Constellation:

Fourth step of the Theory of Ownership of the Constellation:

For each practice auto-evaluated, members assess their community at a level

Fifth step of the Theory of Ownership of the Constellation:

Le Pont Du Tamarinier reflects on action planning